Self Re-writing and Self Un-writing
- Autor(en)
- Georgina Nugent-Folan
- Abstrakt
This essay analyses the imbalance identifiable in critical approaches to the gendering of Beckett’s influences with respect to his autographic writing. Contrasting Beckett’s Company with Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, I unravel the particulars that have led to Stein’s marginalisation as a figure against which we can situate Beckett’s autographic writings, with a view to further understanding why the remarkable correspondence between Beckett and Stein’s autographic praxes has continually evaded critical attention. Building on Porter Abbott’s description of autography as self-writing, I propose that Stein’s autography be considered an example of self-rewriting, and Beckett’s of self-unwriting.
- Organisation(en)
- Externe Organisation(en)
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Journal
- Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd’hui
- Band
- 34
- Seiten
- 163-176
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1163/18757405-03401013
- Publikationsdatum
- 04-2022
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 602008 Anglistik, 602031 Literaturgeschichte, 602005 Amerikanistik, 602003 Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Literature and Literary Theory
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/9228ea3e-ddeb-491d-80f3-c5d766d3776c